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Episode 357 — "A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal Of Skepticism"

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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode 287 - TD17 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why. 3

Episode 306 - TD34 - Is A Life That Is 99 Percent Happy Really Happy? 3

Episode 309 - TD37 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind 3

Episode 316 - TD43 - "Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - A Life of Happiness Is A Life Of Pleasure" (Sixth Year Podcast Anniversary) 3

Episode 322 - EATAQ 04 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates 3

Episode 325 - EATAQ 07 - The False Platonic Division of The Universe Into A Force Which Causes And That Which The Force Acts Upon 3

Episode 329 - EATAQ 11 - Cracks In The Academy On Ideal Forms And Virtue Lead To The Emergence of Aristotle, The Stoics, And Epicurus 3

Episode 331 - EATAQ 13 - The Self-Defeating Paradox of Radical Skepticism 3

Episode 333 - EATAQ 15 - Epicurus Disputes The Stoic View Of The Sensations And The Anticipations 3

Episode 340 - EATAQ22 - The Fatal Flaw in Socratic Skepticism 3

Episode 350 - EATAQ32 - Addressing A Listener Question On The Flux And Real Life 3

Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4

Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4

Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4

Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4

Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4

Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4

Episode One Hundred Sixteen - Letter to Herodotus 05 - More Fundamental Physics 4

Episode One Hundred Twenty-One - Letter to Herodotus 11 - Atoms, The Soul, And Those Who Are Well Disposed Towards Us 4

Episode One Hundred Thirty - Letter to Pythocles 04 - More on the Sun and Moon 4

Episode One Hundred Forty-Nine - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 05 - The Early Years of Epicurus 4

Episode 150 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 06 - Development of the School in Mytilene and Lampsacus 4

Episode 171 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 24 - Chapter 11 - Soul, Sensation, and Mind 01 4

Episode 173 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 02 4

Episode 185 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 37 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 08 4

Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4

Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4

Episode 213 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 20 - No One But You Epicureans Define Pleasure As You Do! Why Do You Disguise Yourselves? 4

Episode 231 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 06 - How would you live if you were certain that there are no supernatural gods and no life after death? 4

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